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Part time jobs may help reduce negative side-effects of shorter maternity benefit

22/06/2009 | News

"It may help to increase goverment support for part time jobs and family friendly employment", explained BI expert in a radio interview on a recent government proposal to reduce the lump sum maternity benefit to two years (from three).

Government is merely a means to an end, viz. the happiness of the whole community and the individuals composing it. (James Mill, 1820)